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Congratulations to Professor Clarissa Rile Hayward for publishing her article, " Disruption: What Is It Good For?", in the Journal of Politics.

Congratulations to Professor Brian Crisp, Professor Matthew Gabel, and former graduate students, Caitlin Ainsley, Clifford Carrubba, Betul Demirkaya, and Dino Hazdic for publishing their article, "Roll Call Vote Selection: Implications for the Study of Legislative Politics" in the forthcoming American Political Science Review.

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Reeves and PhD student, David Miller, for writing an article for The Washington Post's Monkey Cage.

Congratulations to Professor William Nomikos for publishing an article in Internation Peacekeeping.

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Reeves and PhD student, Bryant Moy, on publishing their work in Political Behavior.

In an era of worries over fake news, who can be trusted? Taylor Carlson studies the effects of interpersonal political communication, especially on social media.

Congratulations to Professor David Carter and co-author, Paul Poast, for publishing their article " Barriers to Trade: How Border Walls Affect Trade Relations" in International Organization.

Congratulations to Professor Chris Lucas and co-authors on publishing their article "Universality and diversity in human song” in Science.

Congrats to Professor David Carter and co-authors John Chin and Joesph Wright on publishing a Monkey Cage article on The Washington Post website about recent claims of a "coup attemp" in the US, of which their research was based on the topic. Their article was titled, "No, the Trump impeachment inquiry is not a coup".

Congratulations to Professor William Nomikos and co-author Nicholas Sambanis (UPenn) on publishing their article, " What is the mechanism underlying audience costs? Incompetence, belligerence, and inconsitency," in the Journal of Peace Research.

Congratulations to Professor Margit Tavits and co-author Professor Efrén O. Pérez (UCLA) on publishing their article, "Language influences mass opinion toward gender and LGBT equality,” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Congratulations to Deniz Aksoy and PhD graduate, Dino Hadzic! Their paper, "Political Institutions and Collective Attachments" is forthcoming in European Union Politics.

Congratulations to Professor David Carter and co-author Paul Poast of University of Chicago, on the acceptance of their paper, "Barriers to Trade: How Border Walls Affect Trade Relations" by the Journal of International Organization.

“Legacies of the Third Reich: Concentration Camps and Outgroup Intolerance” has won the Sage Best Paper Award.

Professor Tavits and her collaborators (Professor Debus from University of Mannheim and Professor Somer-Topcu from UT-Austin) have been awarded a 467,010 euro (about $ 523,000) grant by the German National Science Foundation (DfG) to study whether and how political parties change their policy positions between elections and whether voters understand and care about those position changes.

Congratulations to Professor Betsy Sinclair! Her article, "Pathways to Trump: Republican Voters in 2016," was published on ResearchGate. 

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Miguel Pereira! His article, "Do Parties Respond Strategically to Opinion Polls? Evidence from Campaign Statements," has been accepted at Electoral Studies.

Congratulations to Professor Brian Crisp and PhD graduate Betul Demirkaya!  Their paper, "Strategic Entry and Strategic Voting in Majoritarian Systems" has been accepted to be published in The Journal of Politics.

PhD Candidate Patrick Rickert's research from his Third Year Paper is featured in the Vox blog: Lisa Murkowski's Unusual Vote on Kavanaugh, Explained

Congratulations to PhD candidate Erin Rossiter! Her poster, "Measuring Agenda-Setting Power in Political Discourse," was awarded one of the 2019 Society for Political Methodology Poster Awards for the best methods poster presented by a graduate student.